How to obtain and birth or death certificate in the state of Colorado

How to obtain and birth or death certificate in the state of Colorado

I have come across some threads, and inbox messages from people telling me where I can go to get birth and death information in the state of Colorado. Unfortunately, most of the time this information is wrong. Google is not always correct.

I worked in the funeral industry here in the state of Colorado for about 2 years. Most days I ran paper work, death certificates. Death certificates are filed at Vital statistics, the same place as birth certificates.

I have had some people tell me that I can only go certain days, or that I cannot just pop in. They provide address's to the places where they go. Yes, these addresses are correct, sort of.

The addresses most people give me are for section offices. A section office is not an office for the entire state, and as the name implies, they are an office for a section of the state. These are not county offices, county offices are more like a main office, and there are only a few of these section offices that I know of.

This is because in the funeral industry you cannot file a death certificate at a section office. Death certificates, and birth certificates have to be fined at the county vital records office, and they have to be filed in the county that they were born in or died in. So if you were born in Arapaho county your birth certificate would have been filed at what is called tri-county records. If you died in Boulder county, your death certificate was filed at Boulder county vital records.

If you forget the section offices and go to the county vital statics offices you are able to pop in whenever you can during business hours, and you are able, and you must provide all necessary documentation, to obtain any other documents or forms that you have come for. Also, any county vital statics office can provide you with information from any county in Colorado, a section office, as far as I understand, cannot. I even called the Denver county office to confirm that they could do this for other counties.

I hope that this clears up any and all confusion for people searching here in Colorado. I will also try and post this thread to other counties here in Colorado.

Below are the addresses for the all of the county vital statics offices in Colorado. As well as what you need to bring with you.

Happy hunting, and good luck on your tree's...

Death Certificates

Fee $17.00 (as far as I know, and I have called to check, death information is public record, any one is able to pull a death certificate. Please call your county and double check.)

Birth Certificates

We issue certificates for any birth within the state of Colorado from 1905 to the present. (Dates vary depending on county)

Fees

1st certified copy: $17.75Additional certified copies -(ordered at the same time for the same person): $10.00 eachAdditional Charges